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43rd Annual Natchitoches-NSU Folk Festival to be held Saturday July 22

NATCHITOCHES – The 43rd Annual Natchitoches-NSU Folk Festival will be held on Saturday July 22 in air-conditioned Prather Coliseum located at 220 South Jefferson Street at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. The festival’s curated showcase of Louisiana folk musicians, food vendors and traditional crafts persons will open at 9 a.m., with live entertainment scheduled from […]

High school trumpet students get advanced training at NSU

NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State University’s Department of Music recently hosted its annual Honors Wind Ensemble Music Camp. Director of Bands Dr. Anthony Pursell led the camp. Associate Professor of Trumpet Galindo Rodriguez was applied trumpet teacher with […]

Phlebotomy class to be offered in July

NATCHITOCHES – An online phlebotomy technician training course through Northwestern State University’s Office of Electronic Learning & Global Engagement will begin on NSU’s Cenla campus at 1410 Neal Kearby Blvd. in Alexandria on Wednesday, July 5 and in Natchitoches on July 17. 

This nine-week course is broken down into three parts […]

NSU Theatre and Dance students gaining valuable professional experience this summer

NATCHITOCHES – More than 20 Northwestern State University Theatre and Dance students have been hired for summer work by professional companies around the United States or have been admitted to nationally recognized graduate programs. 

Students work as actors, choreographers, hosts or in a variety of roles. Several professional companies come to NSU annually […]

Three incoming anglers awarded Poche scholarships

NATCHITOCHES – Three incoming Northwestern State University freshmen who will be part of the university’s bass fishing team were named recipients of Dylan Kyle Poche Memorial Scholarships. Ross Miller of Rayne, Cole Pickett of Many and Drake Wadsworth of Stonewall will be awarded a combined $20,500 from Burt and Shelley Poche.  All three students will […]

ET students win undergraduate research competition

NATCHITOCHES – Three graduates of Northwestern State University’s Department of Engineering Technology were recognized for research submitted to Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Society International.

Work by Matthew Lovelady of Zwolle and Nicholas Tramel and Tanner Funderburk, both of Noble, won first place in the research competition sponsored by IEOM and announced at a conference last […]

Northwestern State dance major Makenzie Scroggs named Miss Louisiana

NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State dance major Makenzie Scroggs won the title of Miss Louisiana this past weekend in Monroe. She will represent the state in the Miss America Pageant later this year. 

Scroggs, who is from Marksville, was Miss Natchitoches City of Lights. She was first runner up in the contest last year […]

Theta Chi president earns fraternity honor

NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State University student Jairus Killings was named a Resolute Man by Theta Chi Fraternity while attending the fraternity’s Initiative Academy in Bloomington, Indiana. Killings, a theatre major from Alexandria, is president of NSU’s Theta Chi chapter.

The Resolute Man is a set of standards defining membership in Theta Chi through which the chapters […]

Linemen get housing, meals at NSU

NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State University is providing accommodations in a campus residence hall to house 170 linemen supporting SWEPCO and resources from AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power, Indiana & Michigan Power and Kentucky Power this week as crews work to restore electricity to the Shreveport metro area. Through cooperation with Sodexo and Campus Living […]

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